ArtMetal

Ever heard of "everything in moderation?" If you use that concept in life, things will go much smoother.

Bill states: "I am not ashamed to admit, that I am ignorant of the things I do not know"!

"Ignorance is bliss" right?

Bill, when I wrote the above post, I did it without pointing fingers at anyone. That you have taken it personally means to me that somewhere in your mind you knew you were spamdexing. Maybe I should have written about this subject at the beginning of creating this new interactive part of ArtMetal. But to be honest, there was just too many "irons in the fire" to create an faq/help topic specifically on spamming. I was hoping folks would be sensitive and knowledgeable enough to know if they were taking advantage of cross linking, spamdexing, etc. The registering procedure does go into cross linking, but it doesn't spell it out. I was just hoping that the end user would use common sense when posting. Anyway, we now have an faq/help post addressing this issue.

Bill states: ...now I need to know the RULES on signatures.

Let me ask, when you read the original post above, does it not address the issue on signatures? Please read again the paragraph starting with:

"So if you think you are getting better search ratings by adding a url to all your one liners, then you are in for a surprise! Please note that every registered user has a link automatically added to your posts and comments by the artmetal system back to your user profile"...

Try using a little common sense Bill. If you are responding with one liner comments to other peoples posts, why would you want to put in a link to your web site? If on the other hand, you are creating a post, or responding to a post, and you have some content on your web site that might add definition to the content, then put the url to the applicable page on your web site. Doesn't this make sense?

What else do I need to say to clarify this subject? Oh, I know. Did you follow and read the content to the link I provided to the Wikipedia articles on Spamdexing? Take some time out from metal art and learn the ins and outs on this important subject.

Sincerely & also with affection,

Enrique